01 Investigation
Written by: He Jinkang Liang Zurao
2021-02-05 07:05
The last update date: 2021-02-05 07:05
An original resident of the surname Qiu who lives in a public housing estate in Choi Hung Ping Shek Village was found to have concealed a small house in Tai Po with a market value of $16 million. He was sentenced to 14 days in prison at the beginning of January, which also exceeded the income limit for wealthy households in the new public housing. , The public housing unit was recovered.
"Hong Kong 01" directly hit the luxury three-story terraced small houses involved, totaling more than 4,000 square feet.
The adjacent village house is held by a male surnamed Lu. When the reporter revealed that the two males filled out the sales and purchase agreement, the declared address was the address of the squire, the representative of Xinweizai Village, Zhang.
The squire surnamed Zhang also holds a piece of land of about 400 feet next to the village house.
The squire surnamed Zhang claimed that he was only the contractor of the small house, and has not yet received the final construction fee. It is not known whether the small house is involved in "settling", and he did not respond to why the male declared his address, saying only that "I will do it if I have work. ".
A small house in Shek Village, Juping visited three times and no one answered the door
The original inhabitant Qiu Sheng's family of four lives in a public housing unit in Choi Hung Ping Shek Village. When filling out the "Income and Assets" declaration form in April last year, they declared that they did not own land or properties and claimed their total family net worth Not exceeding 100 times the current public housing income limit, which is 3.1 million yuan.
However, the Housing Department later received reports that Qiu Sheng was involved in concealing assets. After investigation, it was discovered that Qiu had purchased a piece of land in Tentoujiao Village, Tai Po as early as 2012, and built a village house with a market value of 16 million yuan. The interest limit is 100 times.
Therefore, the department prosecuted him in December last year, alleging that Qiu Nan violated section 27(a) of the Housing Ordinance for neglecting to provide the details specified in the income and asset declaration forms. Qiu was convicted and sentenced to prison in early January. 14 days.
According to the information provided by the Housing Department, the reporter visited the address of Qiu Nanpingshi Village three times during the month and found that there was indeed a handwriting outside the unit with the word "Qiu Jia" written on it. In the middle of the night, there was a weak light in the house.
The reporter looked into the house through the window and saw a suspected figure, but no one answered the door.
The neighbourhood of the unit said that he was not familiar with the Qiu family, and it was not even clear whether anyone lived in the unit.
However, the building manager said that he knew that Qiu Nan and his wife lived in the unit with a family of four.
No one was found in the underground unit of the village house involved
The reporter then inspected Qiu’s three-storey village house at Tong Tau Kok, Tai Po, and found that the village house was connected to an adjacent village house. The exterior walls used the same materials, colors and design. The two connected village houses had a usable area of 4,200 square feet. .
The reporter observed from the outside that the basement unit of Qiu Village House had an open kitchen, and there was no furniture in the living room, and no one was living.
In addition, there are curtains on the windows of the adjacent village house unit, and there should have been people moving in, but no one answered the door.
The address of the two males Qiu Lu buying land is the residential address of the representative of Xinweizai Village
Looking through the land registration documents, Qiu bought the land at Tong Tau Kok, Tai Po from a representative of Buxin Pai village residents surnamed Liu for 550,000 yuan on November 7, 2012.
The day before Qiu purchased the land, the resident representative sold the land of the small house to a male named Lu for 500,000 yuan.
The two adjacent lands were subsequently approved for building licenses in 2018.
The Housing Department stated that Qiu's small house had been approved for a "Completion Certificate" in 2020.
In 2012, Mr. and Mrs. Liu sold the land of the village house involved to Qiu Nan for 550,000 yuan.
(Land Registry Document)
The representative of San Wai Tsai Village holds the land next to the connected small house and approves the passage of the small house
However, it is worth noting that when the two males Lu and Qiu signed the land sale and purchase agreement in November 2012, the address declared by the two males was the address of a small house in San Wai Tsai, Tai Po. The reporter found that the address was It is the residential address of the squire surnamed Zhang, the representative of Xinweizai Village.
The squire, surnamed Zhang, also holds a piece of land of about 400 square feet next to the connected village house. It also bought it from the representative of Buxinpai village surnamed Liu for 50,000 yuan in November 2012. Zhang changed it in April 2019. Approval of connecting small house barge canal through its holding land.
The reporter called the representative of the village surnamed Zhang for inquiries. He claimed that he was only a contractor for two small houses, and that he had built small houses in Tai Po District for decades. Because he had friendship with Qiu Nan's father, he was commissioned by him in 2018. He helped his son build a small house, but Qiu Nan lived in Pingshi Village at the time.
Involved in a number of criminal cases accused of unpaid housing stock
Zhang Xu said that he had never asked Qiu Nan's details until the Housing Department accused him of concealing his assets.
Zhang even stated that Qiu Nan had been imprisoned for other criminal cases, and even described him as "a lot of cases" and that Qiu had not paid the final balance of the house.
The reporter checked the record and found that the man with the same name in both Chinese and English had been involved in a number of criminal cases.
As for whether Qiu Nan is suspected of arranging the job, Zhang declined to comment, saying that he did not know whether there were other owners or developers behind the scenes, saying: "If I have a job, I will do it."
But he added that even if Qiu Nan is really "adjustable", the profits he makes must also be repaid to Zhang Zuo's construction costs.
However, when the reporter called again, intending to inquire why the address was provided to Qiu Nan to buy the land and why the agreement for the installation of the drain was in place, Zhang did not answer the call again and did not reply.
After the implementation of the new wealthy household policy, the Housing Department takes back 280 units every year
According to the new wealthy tenant policy revised by the Housing Authority in 2017, if the household income of public housing tenants exceeds the public housing income limit by five times, or the assets exceed the public housing income limit by 100 times, they must move out of the public housing unit.
The Housing Department replied that since the implementation of the new policy, an average of about 280 units have been recovered from tenants who paid extra rent each year. However, the Housing Department does not keep statistics on tenants actively returning public housing due to the revised policy on wealthy tenants. .
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